Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Clio Padovani -- The challenges of a socially sustainable textiles and fashion industry -- Plustex: An evidence-based approach -- Chapter structure -- Notes -- 1 Museums and the knowledge economy:...

This book investigates the perceptions of political actors towards the creation of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in Europe. The research is largely based on personal interviews conducted with key informants in central banks, finance ministries, employers' organizations and trade unions in...

The British and the Spanish had long been in conflict, often clashing over politics, trade, and religion. But in the early decades of the eighteenth century, these empires signed an asiento agreement granting the British South Sea Company a monopoly on the slave trade in the Spanish Atlantic,...